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Overview We call the Good Funeral Guide Prepaid Funeral Plan GFGPlan. We have created it with in partnership with Open Prepaid Funerals Ltd. There is nothing else like it on the market. You can think of a GFGPlan as a pot marked ‘Funeral’ into which you can put up to £20,000 for a funeral, whether yours or somebody else’s. You […]

Additional Details * denotes a unique feature of the Good Funeral Guide Prepaid Funeral Plan. A GFGPlan fund can cover the funeral costs of up to five people – family members or friends – at any one time. It’s flexible, so that you can have a plan for more than one person. Each member can […]

How much money should you deposit? It’s up to you to make sure there will be enough money in your account. But what’s enough? Here are some guide prices. The cost of a mid-range funeral provided by a funeral director in 2016 is around £3,700.00. A much simpler funeral costs around £2,500. Direct cremation costs […]

Is the Good Funeral Guide Prepaid Plan the one for you? ​The Good Funeral Guide Prepaid Funeral Plan does not try to be all things to all people. It stands for what we consider to be two important principles: Empowerment of your personal representative to take full advantage of commercial competition in the purchase of […]

How could existing prepaid funeral plans be better? Short answer: by giving priority to the needs of consumers. Here are seven things we don’t like about them: Most prepaid funeral plans are designed by funeral directors for funeral directors. The funeral plan is a commercial weapon in an increasingly ugly turf war which enables funeral […]

So you want to put aside money for your funeral? To make financial provision for your funeral is a responsible thing to do – a duty. Funeral costs more or less double every ten years, so it makes sense to invest your money in a financial product that can keep pace. There are a range […]

On the 3rd November ITV Tonight aired a program about the rising cost of funerals. It ca be views here http://www.itv.com/hub/tonight/1a2803a1049 until 2nd December 2016. In the show it highlighted not just the fact that funeral costs have doubled in the last 10 years but also that they continue to rise. Lucy Coulbert of The […]